It is estimated that over a trillion dollars are lost in bribery around the world every year. Such a trend not only creates an obstacle for development, but it also threatens the very existence of democracy, rule of law and human rights. In many developing countries, NGOs and activists working to address the problem of corruption often risk their lives.
In this context, the Finnish Development Cooperation of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland has published a free online guide called “Anti-Corruption Handbook for Development Cooperation.”
The objective of the Handbook is to provide conceptual and technical guidance to enable “development practitioners” to:
Become better equipped to effectively support the anti-corruption work in development co-operation
- Acquire useful tools to analyse the governance situations by using tools like governance assessments (GAs) and the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) and thus, to fulfil the potential provided by these tools, and promote political dialogue and operational activities
- Better contribute to the design and implementation of development programmes by mainstreaming governance and anti-corruption (GAC) issues and to better design and follow-up on specific anti-corruption programmes, NGO support, general budget and sector support
- Become familiar with the legislative and judicial means of strengthening governance and preventing corruption.
You can freely download this publication at this link.
